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veröffentlicht: | Amsterdam University Press 2015 |
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Farocki/Godard: Film as Theory
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Medientyp: | Buch, E-Book |
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9789048527557
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veröffentlicht in: | Pantenburg, Volker (2015): Farocki/Godard: Film as Theory. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/3558. |
Sprache: | Englisch |
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Farocki/Godard: Film as Theory
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Kollektion: | media/rep/ - Repositorium für die Medienwissenschaft |
There is a tension between the requirements of theoretical abstraction and the capacities of the film medium, where everything that we see on screen is concrete: A train arriving at a station, a tree, bodies, faces. Since the complex theories of montage in Soviet cinema, however, there have continuously been attempts to express theoretical issues by combining shots, thus creating a visual form of thinking. This book brings together two major filmmakers - French New Wave master Jean-Luc Godard and German avant-gardist Harun Farocki - to explore the fundamental tension between theoretical abstraction and the capacities of film itself, a medium where everything seen onscreen is necessarily concrete. Volker Pantenburg shows how these two filmmakers explored the potential of combined shots and montage to create "film as theory." |